Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Kindness

Quotes about: Kindness

• We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Compassion, Should

• A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Kindness, Men

• Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Reality, Men

• If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Kindness, Hate

• When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

• That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Kindness, Mistake

• Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Haste, Obligation

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